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Men, Art And Nation (Posted on 2008-08-23)

Substitute each letter by a different digit from 0 to 9 to satisfy this alphametic multiplication problem, where X represents the multiplication symbol.

         M E N
X       A R T
----------------
      B C O N
   B R B E
N B B N
----------------
N A T I O N

Note: While a solution is trivial with the aid of a computer program, can you derive it without one?

Submitted by K Sengupta

Rating: 3.5000 (2 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

(A, B, C, E, I, M, N, O, R, T) = (9, 4, 2, 0, 1, 6, 5, 3, 8, 7)

EXPLANATION:

Refer to the following solutions:

(i) Solution submitted by pcbouhid in this location.

(ii) Solution submitted by Dej Mar in this location

(iii) Solution submitted by Ady TZIDON in this location.

Comments: ( You must be logged in to post comments.)

Subject	Author	Date
re: spoiler	K Sengupta	2008-09-08 05:27:55
re: Solution	K Sengupta	2008-09-08 05:26:58
re: no hands,Virginia	K Sengupta	2008-09-08 05:26:17
no hands,Virginia	Ady TZIDON	2008-08-25 15:38:13
re(2): Solution --- Odd symbol	Dej Mar	2008-08-24 10:09:28
re: Solution --- Odd symbol	brianjn	2008-08-24 09:40:42
Solution	Dej Mar	2008-08-23 22:39:39
spoiler	pcbouhid	2008-08-23 13:27:04

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